AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. We end today with some very sad news. Today we remember our dear colleague Simin Farkhondeh. She was the Democracy Now! education director for ...

German Afghan vocalist Simin Tander represents a new sound in the European jazz landscape: mysterious, narrative, tenderly beautiful yet also powerful, playful and impulsive. Simin moves her audience ...

Waite Hill -- Simin Gharib Naraghipour was a French teacher, TV reporter, leading volunteer and admired hostess. Naraghipour died Thursday, Dec. 29, at her home in Waite Hill from complications of ...

The bells at the door tinkle, and the fashion designer Simin jumps up from a velvet bench and politely excuses herself. “My next fitting is here,” she says, promising to return to her life story a ...

Simin Daneshvar’s first novel, Savushun, is one of the most powerful literary episodes in Persian fiction [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY – Much of the world’s attention was drawn to the confounding ...

Take a pin, stick it in a map of the world and chances are Simin Marefat has been there. A San Francisco nurse and health care volunteer, she's been to 62 countries - mostly in the Third World. She's ...

As modern Iran's first female novelist, Simin Daneshvar, who has died aged 90, knew a lot about adversity. Professionally, she had to make her way in a literary scene dominated by men; in her ...